We just got back from Concepcion and we´re back in our sector! About an hour of P-Day left! We visited old investigators and converts of Elder Davis in his old sector today because its most likely that he will be leaving next week. We´ll know next Sunday. But, he could stay another cambio! Who knows! Ive learned a lot from him and hes been a great trainer.
Yesterday, Maria Jose was baptized! She is a twelve year old girl that is really smart and inteligent. She has a really strong testimony and reads the Book of Mormon a whole lot. Im going to attach a picture of her family, Elder Davis and I, and the fellowshipping family that gave us the refrence. Her mother, Jaqueline, is there and she is a huge reason that Maria Jose was able to be baptized. She was so extremely supportive. She wants to get baptized more than anything but there are a few things she needs to do before she can. In South America its really common for people to be living with someone who they arent married to. We are going to keep working with her and hopefully one day she is able to get divorced and married to the man she is living with. (He wants to get baptized too!) We´re going to keep working with her and anything is possible with the Lord´s help!
Ill attach a few more pictures of the sector. There is one of all the dogs that sit around at this one corner sometimes close to our house. There was a whole lot there at that time but there arent usually that many so close. They are all pretty much scattered around the side walks. They call our zone ¨Jurassic Park¨ because there are high mountains to one side of the city and high gates around the churches. Ill attach some pictures of that too becuase I thought that was pretty funny and accurate when I heard it!
I want to share a little spiritual experience for my spiritual thought. It doesnt end with a baptism, a family reactivated, or even a lesson. But, it ends with a good lesson that I learned...
Yesterday we were contacting references for a large part of the day. We walked past a house and I had peaked in and seen that people were eating dinner together as a family and watching television. I heard a little prompting tell me that I should contact that house but I sort of brushed it off and told myself that we needed to go to this next appointment we had after we were finished with references. Each step we walked further from the house, I felt weaker and weaker. Once we got to a corner of a street that we were about to turn and walk down, which was about twenty steps later, I said, ¨sorry Elder Davis, I need to go contact that house¨ because I was almost so weak I couldnt walk! We went back to the house and I talked to a person at the door step and he said they were busy but pass by another day. After that I felt like my strength was back and I was fine again. I thought about it and knew that the Spirit of God had prompted me to contact them and I turned it down until a few seconds later. Maybe we planted a seed, maybe we will pass by another day and they will be ready for the message, or maybe it was just simply a test from the Spirit. I dont really know, but I do know the importance now of being spiritually sensitive, especially to those that have the greatest gift a person can have- the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Thats it for this week! Love yall and yall are in my prayers!
Elder Gregory
Yesterday, Maria Jose was baptized! She is a twelve year old girl that is really smart and inteligent. She has a really strong testimony and reads the Book of Mormon a whole lot. Im going to attach a picture of her family, Elder Davis and I, and the fellowshipping family that gave us the refrence. Her mother, Jaqueline, is there and she is a huge reason that Maria Jose was able to be baptized. She was so extremely supportive. She wants to get baptized more than anything but there are a few things she needs to do before she can. In South America its really common for people to be living with someone who they arent married to. We are going to keep working with her and hopefully one day she is able to get divorced and married to the man she is living with. (He wants to get baptized too!) We´re going to keep working with her and anything is possible with the Lord´s help!
Ill attach a few more pictures of the sector. There is one of all the dogs that sit around at this one corner sometimes close to our house. There was a whole lot there at that time but there arent usually that many so close. They are all pretty much scattered around the side walks. They call our zone ¨Jurassic Park¨ because there are high mountains to one side of the city and high gates around the churches. Ill attach some pictures of that too becuase I thought that was pretty funny and accurate when I heard it!
I want to share a little spiritual experience for my spiritual thought. It doesnt end with a baptism, a family reactivated, or even a lesson. But, it ends with a good lesson that I learned...
Yesterday we were contacting references for a large part of the day. We walked past a house and I had peaked in and seen that people were eating dinner together as a family and watching television. I heard a little prompting tell me that I should contact that house but I sort of brushed it off and told myself that we needed to go to this next appointment we had after we were finished with references. Each step we walked further from the house, I felt weaker and weaker. Once we got to a corner of a street that we were about to turn and walk down, which was about twenty steps later, I said, ¨sorry Elder Davis, I need to go contact that house¨ because I was almost so weak I couldnt walk! We went back to the house and I talked to a person at the door step and he said they were busy but pass by another day. After that I felt like my strength was back and I was fine again. I thought about it and knew that the Spirit of God had prompted me to contact them and I turned it down until a few seconds later. Maybe we planted a seed, maybe we will pass by another day and they will be ready for the message, or maybe it was just simply a test from the Spirit. I dont really know, but I do know the importance now of being spiritually sensitive, especially to those that have the greatest gift a person can have- the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Thats it for this week! Love yall and yall are in my prayers!
Elder Gregory
